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	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Vol. 400 No. 1 (March II 2003)
Cover illustration: Flying around the equator of the planetary nebula NGC 6818 (Benetti, S. et al., p. 181)

Letters
• Detection of DCO ⁺ in a circumstellar disk     p. L1
  E. F. van Dishoeck, W.-F. Thi and G.-J. van Zadelhoff
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• Looking for dust and molecules in Nova V4743 Sagittarii     p. L5
  M. Nielbock and L. Schmidtobreick
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• Polarization evolution of the GRB 020405 afterglow     p. L9
  S. Covino, D. Malesani, G. Ghisellini, D. Lazzati, S. di Serego Alighieri, M. Stefanon, A. Cimatti, M. Della Valle, F. Fiore, P. Goldoni, N. Kawai, G. L. Israel, E. Le Floc'h, I. F. Mirabel, G. Ricker, P. Saracco, L. Stella, G. Tagliaferri and F. M. Zerbi
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• Model atmosphere analysis of the extreme DQ white dwarf GSC2U J131147.2+292348     p. L13
  D. Carollo, D. Koester, A. Spagna, M. G. Lattanzi and S. T. Hodgkin
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Astrophysical processes
• Formation of the cosmic-ray spectrum due to its propagation in the Galaxy     p. 1
  V. Kryvdyk
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• Nonlinear magnetic diffusion and magnetic helicity transport in galactic dynamos     p. 9
  N. Kleeorin, D. Moss, I. Rogachevskii and D. Sokoloff
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Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies)
Erratum:

• Halo concentrations and weak-lensing number counts in dark energy cosmologies     p. 19
  M. Bartelmann, F. Perrotta and C. Baccigalupi
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Extragalactic astronomy
• The present-day chemical composition of the SMC from UVES spectra of the sharp-lined, B-type dwarf AV 304     p. 21
  W. R. J. Rolleston, K. Venn, E. Tolstoy and P. L. Dufton
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• SPECTRAL: A new evolutionary synthesis code. Application to the irregular Galaxy NGC 1560     p. 31
  G. A. Vázquez, L. Carigi and J. J. González
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• Rotation and outflow in the central kiloparsec of the water-megamaser galaxies IC 2560, NGC 1386, NGC 1052, and Mrk 1210     p. 41
  H. Schulz and C. Henkel
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• The effects of binaries on the evolution of Wolf-Rayet type spectral features in starbursts     p. 63
  J. Van Bever and D. Vanbeveren
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• Propagation velocities of gas rings in collisional ring galaxies     p. 81
  E. I. Vorobyov and D. Bizyaev
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• R-band imaging of the host galaxies of RGB BL Lacertae objects     p. 95
  K. Nilsson, T. Pursimo, J. Heidt, L. O. Takalo, A. Sillanpää and W. Brinkmann
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• Embedded disks in Fornax dwarf elliptical galaxies     p. 119
  S. De Rijcke, H. Dejonghe, W. W. Zeilinger and G. K. T. Hau
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• A multi-colour study of the dark GRB 000210 host galaxy and its environment     p. 127
  J. Gorosabel, L. Christensen, J. Hjorth, J. U. Fynbo, H. Pedersen, B. L. Jensen, M. I. Andersen, N. Lund, A. O. Jaunsen, J. M. Castro Cerón, A. J. Castro-Tirado, A. Fruchter, J. Greiner, E. Pian, P. M. Vreeswijk, I. Burud, F. Frontera, L. Kaper, S. Klose, C. Kouveliotou, N. Masetti, E. Palazzi, J. Rhoads, E. Rol, I. Salamanca, N. Tanvir, R. A. M. J. Wijers and E. van den Heuvel
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• A bright early-type star in the halo of NGC 253: Runaway or in situ formation?     p. 137
  F. Comerón, A. E. Gómez and J. Torra
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• X-ray emission line gas in the LINER galaxy M 81     p. 145
  M. J. Page, A. A. Breeveld, R. Soria, K. Wu, G. Branduardi-Raymont, K. O. Mason, R. L. C. Starling and S. Zane
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• Search for TeV gamma ray emission from the Andromeda galaxy     p. 153
  F. A. Aharonian, A. G. Akhperjanian, M. Beilicke, K. Bernlöhr, H. Bojahr, O. Bolz, H. Börst, T. Coarasa, J. L. Contreras, J. Cortina, S. Denninghoff, V. Fonseca, M. Girma, N. Götting, G. Heinzelmann, G. Hermann, A. Heusler, W. Hofmann, D. Horns, I. Jung, R. Kankanyan, M. Kestel, J. Kettler, A. Kohnle, A. Konopelko, H. Kornmeyer, D. Kranich, H. Krawczynski, H. Lampeitl, M. Lopez, E. Lorenz, F. Lucarelli, O. Mang, H. Meyer, R. Mirzoyan, A. Moralejo, E. Ona, M. Panter, A. Plyasheshnikov, G. Pühlhofer, G. Rauterberg, R. Reyes, W. Rhode, J. Ripken, A. Röhring, G. P. Rowell, V. Sahakian, M. Samorski, M. Schilling, M. Siems, D. Sobzynska, W. Stamm, M. Tluczykont, H. J. Völk, C. A. Wiedner and W. Wittek
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Interstellar and circumstellar matter
• The 3-D ionization structure of NGC 6818: A Planetary Nebula threatened by recombination     p. 161
  S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, R. Ragazzoni, F. Sabbadin and M. Turatto
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• The vertical structure of T Tauri accretion discs - III. Consistent interpretation of spectra and visibilities with a two-layer model     p. 185
  R. Lachaume, F. Malbet and J.-L. Monin
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• XMM-Newton study of hard X-ray sources in IC 443     p. 203
  F. Bocchino and A. M. Bykov
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• The transverse velocity and excitation structure of the HH 110 jet     p. 213
  A. Riera, R. López, A. C. Raga, R. Estalella and G. Anglada
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• Infrared observations of NGC 3603 - II. A 11.9 m and 18 m survey     p. 223
  D. E. A. Nürnberger and T. Stanke
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Stellar structure and evolution
• Selection criteria for targets of asteroseismic campaigns     p. 241
  F. P. Pijpers
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• X-ray spectroscopy of UZ Librae     p. 249
  P. Gondoin
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• H variations of the RS CVn type binary ER Vulpeculae     p. 257
  Ö. Çakirli, C. Ibanoglu, A. Frasca and S. Catalano
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• Deep BVR imaging of the field of the millisecond pulsar PSR J0030+0451 with the VLT     p. 265
  A. B. Koptsevich, P. Lundqvist, N. I. Serafimovich, Yu. A. Shibanov and J. Sollerman
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• The rotational velocity of the sdOB primary of the eclipsing binary system LB 3459 (AA Dor)     p. 271
  T. Rauch and K. Werner
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• Long-term spectroscopic monitoring of the Luminous Blue Variable HD 160529     p. 279
  O. Stahl, T. Gäng, C. Sterken, A. Kaufer, T. Rivinius, T. Szeifert and B. Wolf
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• New spectroscopic binaries among nearby stars     p. 293
  R. Wichmann, J. H. M. M. Schmitt and S. Hubrig
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• The field brown dwarf LP 944-20 and the Castor moving group     p. 297
  I. Ribas
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Stellar atmospheres
• An operator perturbation method for polarized line transfer - VI. Generalized PALI method for Hanle effect with partial frequency redistribution and collisions     p. 303
  D. M. Fluri, K. N. Nagendra and H. Frisch
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• On the shock-induced variability of emission lines in M-type Mira variables - II. Fe II and [Fe II] emission lines as a diagnostic tool     p. 319
  He. Richter, P. R. Wood, P. Woitke, U. Bolick and E. Sedlmayr
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The Sun
• Formation and development of shock waves in the solar corona and the near-Sun interplanetary space     p. 329
  G. Mann, A. Klassen, H. Aurass and H.-T. Classen
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• The microwave subsecond pulse of September 17, 2001: The spectrum, location and size of the source     p. 337
  A. T. Altyntsev, S. V. Lesovoi, N. S. Meshalkina, R. A. Sych and Yihua Yan
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• Plasma properties above coronal active regions inferred from SOHO/UVCS and radio spectrograph observations     p. 347
  S. Mancuso, J. C. Raymond, J. Kohl, Y. -K. Ko, M. Uzzo and R. Wu
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• Solar coronal heating by relaxation events     p. 355
  P. K. Browning and R. A. M. Van der Linden
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Planets and planetary systems
• Photometric and spectroscopic observations of (2060) Chiron at the ESO Very Large Telescope     p. 369
  J. Romon-Martin, C. Delahodde, M. A. Barucci, C. de Bergh and N. Peixinho
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• On the stability of Saturn's rings to gravity disturbances     p. 375
  E. Griv, M. Gedalin and C. Yuan
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Instruments, observational techniques, and data processing
• Phase Knife Coronagraph - II - Laboratory results     p. 385
  L. Abe, A. Domiciano de Souza Jr., F. Vakili and J. Gay
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• Imaging capabilities of hypertelescopes with a pair of micro-lens arrays     p. 393
  S. Gillet, P. Riaud, O. Lardière, J. Dejonghe, J. Schmitt, L. Arnold, A. Boccaletti, D. Horville and A. Labeyrie
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